Essay: The Influence Of Free Speech On College Campuses

campuses are clashing with their administrations and debating the limits of free speech after finding chalk messages voicing support for Donald J. Trump scrawled on campus property.” This goes on to summarize how messages such as, “Build A Wall” and “Donald Trump 2016” were frightening and threatening to them. The president of Emory, James W. Wagner released a statement regarding the matter “As an academic community, we must value and encourage the expression of ideas, vigorous debate, speech, dissent and protest, at the same time, our commitment to respect, civility and inclusion calls us to provide a safe environment that inspires and supports courageous inquiry.” The college had no evidence of any racial slurs, anti-muslim rhetoric or anything truly controversial on the side walks and decided to not investigate (Rogers). The censorship that was attempted at Emory is not an isolated problem, it is an epidemic that has spread through out college campuses in the U.S and the rest of the world. Julie Bindel, a feminist activist and author, is a brutal victim of the culture of safe spaces. Bindel wrote a highly controversial article on the Guardian titled, “Gender benders, beware” were she was very critical of a transgender female Kimberley Nixon. Vancouver Rape Relief refused to hire …show more content…
Sommers who is not only an author, but a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute where she studies politics of gender and feminism, as well as free expression, due process, and the preservation of liberty, found that she was being identified as a possible cause of PTSD. Sommers explained the whole situation on The Sit Down by The Rubin Report by Dave Rubin. “I went to Oberlin college, everyone was triggered and thirty people and a dog fled to a safe space. They had a safe room, there was a therapy dog apparently and thirty triggered young women, and they went to a safe